The Bias of Joe’s Double Standard Towards Ukraine and Israel: Why Judge Should Disqualify Willis and Other Opinions
War watch: Joeâs Ukraine-Israel Double Standard
Besides promising to nix âany standalone Israeli aid,â President Biden âis also reportedly thinking about circumventing Israel and formally recognizing a Palestinian state,â fumes The Federalistâs David Harsanyi.
As âUkraine is prodded by the United States to fight for every inch of its land, Israel is prodded to commit suicide.â
In the name of peace, Israel is asked to reward those who murdered its citizens âwith a brand-new nation,â yet Ukraine isnât being pushed âto create a new Russian ethnic state in Donbas.â
âWhile backing Ukraine allows Democrats to virtue signal about their love of âdemocracy,â turning on Israel allows them to appease the growing anti-Western sentiment of their base.â
Expect it âto get worse in the coming years.â
Elex beat: No Debate on Americaâs Goals
Joe Biden and Donald Trump are supposedly opposites on Ukraine, with the prez backing aid for it and the ex-prez opposed, observes The Wall Street Journalâs Bill McGurn.
Yet when it comes to spelling out âa strategic argument, the two are one.â
Trumpâs âskepticalâ about âwhat we get for our alliancesâ and âuncomfortableâ with long-term overseas commitments.
Biden had to be âbacked intoâ supporting Ukraine, after his botched retreat from Afghanistan.
And he hasnât really tried to âsellâ the case for aiding Kyiv, perhaps because heâs not âphysicallyâ up to it or is âskittish about splits within the Democratic Party.â
Yet between him and Trump, America isnât âgetting the crucial debate about what we want the outcome to be and why.â
Ga. lawyer: Judge Should Disqualify Willis
âIf this case were in federal court,â then disqualifying Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis over her undisclosed sexual relationship with subordinate Nathan Wade âwould be a no-brainer,â writes Andrew Fleischman at The Hill.
âAt the hearing for the motion to disqualify her from continuing in Georgiaâs Trump prosecution,â she âbulldozed into the courtroom with testimony so nonresponsive and embittered that the trial court had to threaten to strike her testimony.â
Wade testified that the relationship started after his appointment as special prosecutor, despite evidence submitted to the court that it had begun before.
Judge Scott McAfeeâs âbest option may beâ just âto point to the confirmed conduct, and the way that Fulton Countyâs lawyers conducted themselves, as a basis for disqualification.â
From the right: The Squadâs Israel Problem
When 65% âof Americans agree Hamas is more responsible for the war than Israel,â asks Eli Lake at The Free Press, why (to choose just one example) would lefty Rep. Summer Lee (D-Pa.) call the hostage rescue in Rafah âindefensibleâ and congratulate âa Carnegie Mellon professor for receiving tenure after she compared Israel to Nazi Germany for its conduct during the Gaza warâ?
Fact is, âfor the first time since the 2018 swearing-in of its inaugural class, the Squad could be shrinking, as its defamation of Israel after October 7 has repelled old-school liberals and centrist Democratsâ thanks to âmore moderate Democrats and the pro-Israel lobby that champions the Jewish stateâs right to defend itself against the worst massacre of civilians in its history.â
Libertarian: Hope on Rent Control
Though the Supreme Court just declined to hear two New York rent-control cases, Reasonâs Christian Britschgi sees hope in âa short statement from Justice Clarence Thomas otherwise agreeing not to take up the cases.â
The rejected petitioners argued that 2019 changes âto New Yorkâs rent stabilization law amounted to a physical taking because they prevented property owners from choosing their tenants or withdrawing their property from the rental market,â and that the post-2019 âlaw amounted to a regulatory taking by tanking the value of their properties.â
And while âThomas agreed with the Courtâs denial of cert, saying that petitionersâ claims in their lawsuits âprimarily contained generalized allegation,âââ he also wrote that the âconstitutionality of regimes like New York Cityâs is an important and pressing question.â
To Britschgi, that implies a âneed to see more specific arguments about the circumstances of individual landlords.â
Compiled by The Post Editorial Board